OldBoring wrote:Yes, as people usually read Classical Chinese with modern Mandarin pronunciation.

Don't people read it using the pronunciation from other modern dialects/language varieties anymore? Or is this becoming more rare due to those language varieties dying out?

Quite late a response, but people who read Wenyan do so in whichever variety of phonetics they feel most comfortable in, because... compared to the actual Old or Middle Chinese phonetics, everyone's wrong anyways. I know there are still many Southern Chinese readers who insist the Wenyan poetry should be read in theirs, as the intended poetic structures such as rhyme are better represented in their phonetics than in Mandarin. Korea and Japan still read them in their ways, and I assume the same for the Vietnamese Han-Nom readers.

Pinyin and Jyutping automatically generated. I know 説 should not be shuō because it's a textual variant of 悅 in this context, but I'm not going to fix it because I'm lazy and I can't touch Canto in the first place. Should still suffice as an example. Hopefully.